TEST CARD AND MOTHERBOARD MONITORING SYSTEM

• US 20120296583A1
• Filed: 06/24/2011
• Published: 11/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: CONG, WEI-DONG
• Application Number:
  US13/167,728
• Publication Number:
  US 20120296583A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/58
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/266 Arrangements to supply power to external peripherals either directly from the computer or under computer control, e.g. supply of power through the communication port, computer controlled power-strips
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/28 Supervision thereof, e.g. detecting power-supply failure by out of limits supervision
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/325 by lamps or LED's

Abstract

An exemplary test card includes a display unit for displaying a real time status of a number of electric power supply modules of a motherboard, and a programmable logic chip. The display unit includes at least one seven segment LED display. The programmable logic chip gains an effective data of the real time status, and drives the display unit to display the real time status based on the effective data. The real time status can indicate a normal working status, or an abnormal working status if one or more of the power supply modules is not working normally.

Claims

1. A test card for displaying a real time status of a plurality of electric power supply modules of a motherboard, comprising:

a display unit for displaying the real time status, the display unit comprising at least one seven segment LED display, the real time status comprising a normal working status and an abnormal working status if one of the electric power supply modules is not working normally, and

a programmable logic chip comprising a data table and a control unit, the data table comprising a plurality of preset effective datum and a plurality of preset controlling logic values for the at least one seven segment LED display corresponding to the preset effective datum, respectively, the control unit being configured for controlling the display unit to display the real time status, the control unit comprising;

a protocol analysis module for analyzing a real time status signal from the motherboard, and determining an effective data of the real time status signal;

a data obtaining module for obtaining the effective data from the protocol analysis module;

a determination module for receiving the effective data from the data obtaining module, and finding a controlling logic value for the at least one seven segment LED display in the data table, which corresponds to the effective data, and

a driving module for driving the at least one seven segment LED display to display the real time status based on the controlling logic value for the at least one seven segment LED display.

2. The test card of claim 1, wherein the number of the plurality of electric power supply modules is less than or equal to 20, and the number of the at least one seven segment LED display is two.

3. The test card of claim 1, wherein the number of the plurality of electric power supply modules is less than or equal to 9, and the number of the at least one seven segment LED display is one or two.

4. A motherboard monitoring system, comprising:

a motherboard, the motherboard comprising a plurality of electric power supply modules; and

a test card for displaying a real time status of the plurality of electric power supply modules, the test card comprising;

a display unit for displaying the real time status, the display unit comprising at least one seven segment LED display, the real time status comprising a normal working status and an abnormal working status if one of the electric power supply modules is not working normally, and

a programmable logic chip comprising a data table and a control unit, the data table comprising a plurality of preset effective datum and a plurality of preset controlling logic values for the at least one seven segment LED display corresponding to the preset effective datum, respectively, the control unit being configured for controlling the display unit to display the real time status, the control unit comprising;

a protocol analysis module for analyzing a real time status signal from the motherboard, and determining an effective data of the real time status signal;

a data obtaining module for obtaining the effective data from the protocol analysis module;

a determination module for receiving the effective data from the data obtaining module, and finding a controlling logic value for the at least one seven segment LED display in the data table, which is corresponding to the effective data, and

a driving module for driving the at least one seven segment LED display to display the real time status based on the controlling logic value for the at least one seven segment LED display.

5. The motherboard monitoring system of claim 4, wherein the real time status signal from the motherboard is a SGPIO signal.

6. The motherboard monitoring system of claim 4, wherein the motherboard further comprises a power management module electrically connected to the plurality of electric power supply modules, each of the electric power supply modules comprises a power supply device electrically connected to the power management module and a voltage regulator electrically connected to the power supply device and the power management, the real time status comprises a normal working status and an abnormal working status if one of the power supply device is not working normally or if one of the voltage regulator is not working normally.